Malheur Community Empowerment for the Owyhee Act
Latest action · Aug 3, 2022 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedAug 3, 2022
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Malheur Community Empowerment for the Owyhee Act
This bill addresses various public land concerns in Malheur County in Oregon.
The bill directs the Department of the Interior to prepare a programmatic environmental impact statement for certain federal land in the county. Interior shall develop plans for areas that are ecologically degraded or most at risk of being ecologically degraded. Interior shall establish the Malheur Community Empowerment for Owyhee Group, which shall, among other things, use such statement to review projects proposed to the Bureau of Land Management by group members, ranchers holding grazing permits on the federal land, or other members of the public.
The bill also
- establishes a network to monitor such land,
- designates 1,133,481 acres of federal lands in the county as wilderness and components of the National Wilderness Preservation System,
- designates a 14.7-mile segment of Owyhee River as a recreational river,
- establishes improvements for certain loop roads,
- requires separate feasibility studies concerning Owyhee Reservoir,
- requires improvements to existing Oregon State Parks and private camps on the shore of the Reservoir,
- establishes a dude ranch at Birch Creek,
- requires a feasibility study on a specified rails-to-trails project,
- requires a feasibility study on marketing communities or portions of the county as the Gateway to the Oregon Owyhee,
- requires a determination of the use and conditions under which the Jordan Valley Airstrip may be used to support firefighting,
- establishes the Native Seed Center as the primary federal native seed repository in the Western States, and
- requires that land be taken into trust for the benefit of the Burns Paiute Tribe.
Cosponsors 1
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Aug 7, 2022.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-OR | Jeff Merkley | Aug 7, 2022 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| Senate | Energy and Natural Resources Committee | Referred Aug 3, 2022 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Aug 3, 2022Introduced in Senate
- Aug 3, 2022Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 2828 | Malheur Community Empowerment for the Owyhee Act | Reintroduction of | Sep 16, 2020 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill to require the Secretary of the Interior to prepare a programmatic environmental impact statement allowing for adaptive management of certain Federal land in Malheur County, Oregon, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Malheur Community Empowerment for the Owyhee Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources.
- Aviation and airports
- Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
- Fires
- Forests, forestry, trees
- Government studies and investigations
- Horticulture and plants
- Lakes and rivers
- Land use and conservation
- Licensing and registrations
- Livestock
- Oregon
- Outdoor recreation
- Parks, recreation areas, trails
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Railroads
- Roads and highways
- Water storage
- Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Aug 3, 2022Introduced in Senate
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